Restarting Heaven.
The moment Huai Shi spoke of the wager, Perun's pupils silently contracted.
After a brief moment of confusion, he could barely restrain his fury.
Not because Huai Shi had brought up his past mistake again, but because such an unrealistic wager was too bizarre, too straightforward, too unattainable!
Restart Heaven?
Did Huai Shi truly understand what an immense undertaking and outrageous plan that was? Since both were equally intangible for now, why not simply wager on remaking the Present Realm altogether?
Did Canaan truly have time to wait for an outcome now?
"Do you know what you're saying?" Perun asked coldly. "What kind of stalling tactic is this? Or is this some trick meant to fool me?"
"I'm merely proposing a possibility."
Huai Shi said, "If Heaven can be restarted, then rebuilding Utopia and reforging the Present Realm would no longer be empty words, would they? By then, there would be no need to place our hopes in Canaan, no need to keep searching for ways to flee or merely survive.
"I will prove that such a possibility exists. I will let you see it with your own eyes, and I can promise you even more. But if you want to know the outcome, you have to take a gamble first, don't you, Mr. Perun?"
Taiyi extended his hand, solemnly inviting the man who had personally destroyed Heaven in the past. "Are you willing to believe that everything lost can be reclaimed?"
"..."
After a long silence, Perun said nothing more. He merely watched Huai Shi, trying to discern even the slightest trace of lies or hypocrisy.
Yet from beginning to end, Huai Shi simply wore a gentle smile, waiting calmly and without impatience.
Waiting for him to willingly take this step.
Perhaps, compared to that overly distant